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Please all note the message below from BOF office, there is also a guidance doc attached at the bottom.

British Orienteering will continue to monitor the situation and work together with associations, clubs and volunteers to resume orienteering events and activities as soon as it is safe to do so. We would like to thank every one of our associations, clubs and members for your support, and we look forward to welcoming you back to the sport soon.

The post of AOA Secretary becomes vacant on 01 Sep 20 and volunteers are sought for the role from serving Army personnel, or a Reservist. If anyone wants to take over sooner given the current restrictions and twiddling of thumbs by some, then that can be arranged so you can get up to speed with the responsibilities.

The AOA Roll of Honour on the Documents page has been updated. Some information has yet to be found - please could anyone who can assist from their map files, results or memory banks contact Richard Barrett on the email at the end of the document. It lists the known information on:

A couple of new documents have been uploaded to "Documents - Army Orienteering Teams":

(1) A list of all those known to have represented the Army in the Inter Service Championships, from the first official event in 1978 through to this last season. Some (recent) official results have not been seen, so the list of team members are based on the civilian event results.

Please note that for a Team to be eligible for a MLS league/Relay/Harris prize, that unit or club must have organised at least one event at any point over the summer and Winter League prior to the prize giving.

There are still a couple of events in the season which require an organiser if you think you are not yet eligible for a prize.

A beautiful crisp and sunny day greeted competitors as they arrived at Cinderford in the Forest of Dean to contest the 2019 edition of the Inter Services Orienteering Championships. The competition area presented terrain typical of the region - runnable sections of woodland interspersed with dense forestry blocks, numerous tracks and steep valleys. Recent heavy rainfall made for very slippery conditions and the going underfoot was tough. The men would compete over a 10.4km classic course, with 275m of climb; for the women the distance was 6.1km with 150m gain in height.

Please note that if you went up an age gp on 1 Jan 2020, this will not be reflected in your results until the end of the League in May 2020. Competitors remain in the age gp they started the league season in, so an M21 remains as M21 until end of the league season, even though they became M35 on 1 Jan 2020 under BOF age gp rules. The only exception is anyone starting in the league after 1 Jan 2020 who can run in their new age gp. This ensures consistency and those in the older age gp are not disadvantaged by having people use scores in their class from a younger age gp.

Nick Bateson> 1958-2007> When Nick was killed in a tragic road traffic accident in Iraq on 01 May 07 he left behind his loving, supportive wife Angela. > Brought up in Kent, Nick went to school in Tonbridge. After Uni Nick joined the Army and was commmisioned into the Royal Signals.> Nick was a gifted athlete taking part in all things running and triathlon. Arguably he was lucky to serve when he did, a time when purse strings were not so tight and Army numbers high.

As there are no BAOC events now until 8 Jan why not try putting your route up on Route Gadget (RG) for one of the previous events such as MLS Winchester Urban and compare it to others, Most MLS events now get posted to RG and it is a good way to anaylse routes, we have also now got the Score event at Winchester on RG as well.

This year’s Inter Corps Orienteering Championships took place over two days on the evening of Sat 30 Nov 19 and Sun 1 Dec 19. Day 1 was a night event on Caerwent Training Area as part of the Southern Night Champs organised by the British Army Orienteering Club (BAOC). Some 360 competitors took out into the night, of which more than 150 of these were soldiers. Day 2 was part of the Southern Champs weekend, held in the Forest of Dean, at Churchill Inclosure and Cannop Ponds and organised by Bristol Orienteering Club (BOK) with some 450 competitors of which c.165 were soldiers. It was a...

Places on all three AOA skills courses at Longmoor in Jan over the period 27-30th. All three levels are being offered Basic, Intermediate and Advanced O skills. These courses are ours and not ASPT ones so bid to coaching@armyorienteering.com direct. Joining instructions and application forms on the events page

Corps Team Captains please note the AOA needs to give BOK numbers of competitors on each course for the 1 Dec event in FOD by Sun 24 Nov so they can order maps for printing on Mon 25th. In order to do that we need to know how many teams each Corps plans to enter.